Well, I'm glad someone's having fun. I've been locked out of beta almost 24 hours now with an error that seems to be hitting thousands of players on the NA servers. How is it that yet again an MMORPG developer can't get its act together so close to release - not to mention this is the second go around for this game? It boggles the mind.

Do take into account that this is what Beta's are for,rather have the problems now than full release...been smooth as anything for me,but some people are getting the problems when they use Duty Finder,and i have not used that this time around

As this is the last 7 hrs,when you log out,make sure you log out when in an Inn(if you have that option,depends where you are in the story)

you get rested bonus when you log back on(as it carries on while you are offline),the longer the better..when you have rested bonus you earn more EXP from Combat,Synthesis and gathering are increased 50%,it will start to go down as you earn EXP

if you log out in an Inn today,you could get a weeks worth of Rested Bonus(depending when you log back in)

Well it looks like the servers are down for the count, with no word on an extension or any change in the schedule as yet. Yes, I realize this is considered "beta" but as an "open" beta scheduled for 48 hours, this is nothing short of a severe failure given how many players were simply not able to participate for over half of the up-time. If they were hoping to stress their servers it seems like they did that and more.

/rant onWhat bothers me is -judging by their forum responses- how many apologists there are making excuses for this kind of behavior, with this and every MMORPG that flirts with release. We're closing in on 20 years in a multi-billion dollar industry, and yet the majority of releases are met with one incompetent display after another. Is there any industry that collects so much money from customers that is allowed this sort of freedom time after time? And not just freedom or a wide berth, but customers who actually protect and make excuses for them. I work in the satellite TV industry, and everything we do is working toward providing service at 99% and better reliability. Rest assured there is no one making excuses for us when the TV signal goes out for any reason. More likely we'd have a ton of irate customers calling in and bitching up a storm, demanding this or that.

This last attempt with FFXIV is particularly egregious given that (so I've heard) the errors are the same as ones the game was having in its original release - FOUR years ago!!?!?! Why do we as consumers basically encourage this kind of behavior? Really I guess I'm just mad at myself for thinking anything would be different this time around, and supporting an industry which does not seem capable of any form of professionalism.